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With xmas still way too far in time, O-bon (middle of August, for the western part of Japan and the media at least, I read) is the chosen holiday for Ruby's 1.8.5 release.

Some milestones (ruby-dev:28711):

• 1.8.5 preview 1 in around one week time (~ Jun. 20th)
• 1.8.5 preview 2 around Jul. 12th
• 1.8.5 preview 3 around Aug. 1st
• 1.8.5 release ~Aug. 15th